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| All content taken from The O'Reilly Factor on Fox News Channel. Each weeknight by 6 PM EST a preview of that evening's show will be posted and then updated with additional information the following weekday by noon EST.
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"You may remember former NBC News correspondent John Hockenberry, who reported stories for Dateline NBC. In this month's edition of 'Technology Review,' a publication put out by MIT, Mr. Hockenberry makes a very disturbing charge. He writes about being in Saudi Arabia just after 9/11 and wanting to speak with members of Osama bin Laden's family. Hockenberry says that because 'GE had long done business with the bin Ladens,' he called GE headquarters to see if senior officers 'might try to persuade the bin Ladens to speak.' According to Hockenberry, a senior GE officer would only read him a statement over the phone saying that 'GE had an important, long-standing, and valuable relationship with Bin Laden Group' and saw 'no connection between that relationship and what Dateline was trying to do in Saudi Arabia.' There are also reports that GE continues to do business with Iran. The Factor has confirmed that, through subsidiaries, GE is working with the Iranian government on hydroelectric, oil and gas, and medical projects. It should be noted that Iran is listed as a state that sponsors terrorism, and U.S. intelligence has confirmed that Iranian weapons are being used to kill Americans in Iraq and Afghanistan. The key issue is how American corporations are behaving in the middle of a terror war. General Electric should fully explain both situations - the bin Laden deal and Iran."
For more on GE, The Factor was joined by Debra Burlingame, an activist whose brother died in the World Trade Center attacks. "GE has a problem," Burlingame declared. "The fact is that they are defying U.S. sanctions by doing business with their foreign subsidiaries in Syria and Iran. On the street that would be called 'blood money.'" Security expert Christopher Holton also condemned GE for doing business with rogue nations. "Companies like GE and others are providing corporate life support for our enemies in the war on terrorism. It would not have been acceptable in the 1940's to build a hydroelectric plant in Nazi Germany, and it's not acceptable to be building one today in Iran." The Factor reminded viewers of the other allegation against GE. "John Hockenberry said that even after 9/11, even after Osama Bin Laden attacked the U.S., General Electric wasn't going to probe Bin Laden's family. That is very disturbing."
News Link: Former NBC reporter blasts GE |
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At a Hillary Clinton campaign stop last week, some male demonstrators held up signs and shouted "iron my shirt," providing Senator Clinton with the opportunity to mock the "remnants of sexism." Radio talk show host Monica Crowley expressed her suspicions about the incident. "My first reaction," Crowley said, "was that of course this was staged. I don't know whether or not it was staged by the Clinton war machine, but I know it's not above them to do something like this. Hillary Clinton had an ad-lib all ready to go and certainly used this to her advantage." The Factor suggested the demonstration was the work of free lancers. "I can't imagine the Clintons, as sophisticated as they are, sanctioning something like this. Political loons think this stuff up by themselves without the campaigns having to tell them."
News Link: Video: Clinton heckled in NH |
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To cut down on fraud, some states are requiring voters to show photo IDs before casting ballots, which the ACLU calls blatantly discriminatory. The Supreme Court is now deciding whether or not a photo ID requirement passes constitutional muster. "The ACLU says you don't need this law," FNC anchor Megyn Kelly reported, "because there is no proven instance of voter fraud. And they say it's disenfranchising poor voters, minority voters, elderly voters. This case has come down to political lines, and they think the ID requirement is going to hurt the Democrats. I absolutely expect the Supreme Court to rule against the ACLU." The Factor urged the Supremes to uphold the ID mandate. "If I were on the Supreme Court, I'd say what is the downside of having somebody prove who they are when they come to vote?"
News Link: SCOTUS shows support for voter ID law |
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It has been nearly two years since ten-week old Jason Midyette was beaten to death in Colorado; doctors found fractured 37 bones in his tiny body. Jason's mother Molly has been convicted of child abuse, her husband Alex will stand trial in the spring, and attorney Sharon Liko reported the latest on the brutal case. "Doctors think the baby was beaten a number of times because the injuries were in various states of healing. The mother said she didn't know anything was going on, and that was her only defense. Her own mother and mother-in-law testified that they saw bruises on the baby." The Factor worried that Alex Midyette may try to flee the state. "I hope they keep an eye on him because he's going away for life and he knows it."
News Link: Midyette case update |
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| FNC media analysts Bernie Goldberg and Jane Hall entered the No Spin Zone to scrutinize press coverage of the primaries. The Factor asked Goldberg about the NBC News reporter who admitted to being caught up in the Obama frenzy. "What would happen," Goldberg asked rhetorically, "if a reporter swooned over a conservative Republican the way so many reporters are slobbering over a liberal Democrat? We all know what would happen. I'm waiting for the reporters to come out in shorts and with pom-poms." Hall agreed that many in the media have leaped onto the Obama bandwagon. "Anybody watching would have to agree that the media has a crush on Barack Obama. But they have to have some judgment. And I think the media helped Hillary Clinton indirectly by declaring her dead." The Factor singled out NBC as the worst offender. "NBC has basically said Obama is our guy and we're going to rip Hillary up. We all know that bias has existed for decades, but it's now in the cheerleading stage." |
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| Ombudsperson Laurie Dhue relayed grievances from viewers, many of whom criticized Bill's judgment for shoving the Obama staffer who blocked a Fox News camera crew. The Factor's response: "That guy did it on purpose, and the video shows that our cameraman moved and this guy moved over again to block him. It's the correspondent's job to protect the camera people. They have a lens in their eye, and this guy was intruding on their work. We were in the rightful place and we were behaving." Anyone with questions or complaints can write to dhuepoint@foxnews.com. |
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Wednesday's Patriot: The Iowa mom who intentionally embarrassed her son by taking out an ad to sell his car after she found booze under the front seat. And the Pinhead : The View's Joy Behar, who mocked Catholic saints as people who were "hearing voices" in an age when "we didn't have thorazine to calm them down." Nominate a Pinhead or a Patriot by sending an email to pnp@billoreilly.com.
News Link: Mom sells son's car after finding booze
News Link: Joy Behar suggests saints were mentally ill |
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A sampling of your recent e-mails:
Veronica Nelson, Merrimack, NH: "One of the reasons the pollsters got it wrong was absentee ballots. I'm away at college and voted weeks ago."
Pat Gill, Sedona, AZ: "What's wrong with NBC News commentators attacking Hillary when left-wing loons attack President Bush all the time?"
Doug Roe, Wyoming: "Bill, I am a mental health worker and agree with Dennis Miller that Dr. Phil's behavior in the Britney Spears case is shabby."
Don Lambert, Westwood, MA: "Dr. Phil is not a medical doctor and therefore is not held to the standards of the Hippocratic Oath." |
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